New Hampshire Statesman

From the Providence Journal.

There is one thing observable in present canvass for President, which tho' it has not been touched by any writer for the newspapers, engages the serious attention of discreet and thinking people and ought to be more generally considered. It is observable, that all the cunning demagogues who wish to rule by party violence and all the parasites who will worship at any altar to obtain offices for themselves or their friends, are bitter enemies to John Quincy Adams, and spare no terms of vituperation abuse, when talking of him as a candidate. If disregarding the scurrility of these people, we endeavour to come at a reasonable motive for their hostility, we shall find it in the personal and public character of the eminent statesman and patriot we have alluded to. There is no man living, whom a demagogue, who places his hopes of popularity and power in the success of his low intrigues, ought to fear more than Mr. Adams. Let such men come from Maine or Virginia, they are equally despised and discountenanced, by one whose long experience in public life, and general acquaintance with human character, enable him, at a single glance to detect the shallowness of a political empirick, or the lowlived craft of a state manager. In his presence, the depths of their cunning are fathomed with ease, and their calculations for the future are scanned. His integrity and patriotism being well known, they cannot hope to succeed in any of their plans which depend on him. It is so, also, with the office-hunter, who has neither honesty or talents to recommend him. Such a man is aware, that from Mr. Adams nothing can be obtained that he desires—that the offices created by the people for the benefit of the community, will not be given to those who cannot render a service adequate to the compensation, or are unfit be trusted with the public interests. Hence the enmity of such people to John Quincy Adams. He asks not their favor; expects not their influence; and would conceive himself insulted by their praise. He will not consent to deliver his country into their hands to obtain their suffrages: He needs not do so. That enmity and that abuse, which an honest man receives from a knave, elevates him in the eyes of the virtuous; and the fact, that every political sharper in the nation abuses John Quincy Adams, is the best panegyric which could be pronounced on his character. Let it only be written on his tomb, that such and such men were his enemies, and, our word for it, if the acts of those men are preserved in the annals of the country, posterity will ask no further evidence of his virtue.